Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.

Book 28, Marriage, covers the rulings and etiquettes related to matrimonial contracts.

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 37

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 37 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam said the like of that. Malik said that if a man had sexual relations with a female slave that he owned, and then he wanted to also have relations with her sister, the sister was […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 38

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 38 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab gave his son a slave-girl and said, “Do not touch her, for I have uncovered her.” حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ، وَهَبَ لاِبْنِهِ جَارِيَةً فَقَالَ لاَ تَمَسَّهَا فَإِنِّي قَدْ كَشَفْتُهَا […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 39

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 39 Yahya related to me from Malik that Abd arRahman ibn al-Mujabbir said that Salim ibn Abdullah gave his son a slave-girl and said, “Do not go near her, for I wanted her, and did not act towards her.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْمُجَبَّرِ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ وَهَبَ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 40

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 40 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Abu Nahshal ibn al-Aswad said to al-Qasim ibn Muhammad,”I saw a slave-girl of mine uncovered in the moonlight, and so I sat on her as a man sits on a woman. She said that she was menstruating, so […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 41

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 41 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibrahim ibn Abi Abla from Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan that he gave a slave-girl to a friend of his, and later asked him about her. He said, “I intended to give her to my son to do such-and-such with her.” Abd al-Malik […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 42

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 42 Malik said, “It is not halal to marry a christian or jewish slave-girl because Allah the Blessed, the Exalted, said in His Book, ‘Believing women who are muhsanat and women of those who were given the Book before you who are muhsanat’, (sura 5 ayat 6) and they are […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 43

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 43 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Said ibn al- Musayyab said, “The muhsanat among women are those who have husbands.” That referred to the fact that Allah has made fornication haram. حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ الْمُحْصَنَاتُ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 44

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 44 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab, and he had heard from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad that they said, “When a free man marries a slave-girl and consummates the marriage, she makes him muhsan.” Malik said, “All (of the people of knowledge) I have seen said that a […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 45

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 45 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abdullah and Hasan, the sons of Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib from their ather, mayAllah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade temporary marriage with women and […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 46

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 46 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az- Zubayr that Khawla ibn Hakim came to Umar ibn al-Khattab and said, ”Rabia ibn Umayya made a temporary marriage with a woman and she is pregnant by him.” Umar ibn al-Khattab went out in dismay dragging […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 47

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 47 Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Rabia ibn Abd ar- Rahman say that a slave could marry four women. Malik said, “This is the best of what I have heard about the matter.” Malik said, “The slave differs with the muhallil if the slave is given […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 48

Muwatta Malik: Book 28, Hadith 48 Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab that he had heard that in the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, women were becoming muslim in their own lands and they did not do hijra while their husbands were still kafirun although […]